Road Improvements

Christopher Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which road schemes are to be considered for inclusion in the Targeted Programme of Improvements between 1 December 2004 and 1 May 2005.

David Jamieson: The Highways Agency has been asked to prepare submissions for consideration by the Secretary of State for Transport for possible inclusion in the Targeted Programme of Improvements of the following schemes:
	M1 Junction 30 to Junction 42 widening
	M1 Junction 8 to 9 widening
	M25 junction 28/A12 Brook Street interchange
	M27 Junction 3 to Junction 4 widening
	M27 Junction 11 to Junction 12 climbing lanes
	M60 Junction 24, Denton Roundabout
	M62 Junction 25 to Junction 28 widening.

Biodiversity

Helen Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much of EU Life Nature funding was received in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in each year since 1993.

Ben Bradshaw: Since 1993 the UK has been successful in securing €44,553,322 (£31,221,669) match funding under the EU LIFE Nature programme. Of this amount the following sums were allocated as set out in the table to projects wholly or predominantly based in each country.
	
		
			 € 
			  England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland 
		
		
			 1993 — — — — 
			 1994 300,000 2,367,500 — — 
			 1995 1,104,400 — 393,000 — 
			 1996 4,335,078 — — — 
			 1997 3,965,722 1,703,258 — — 
			 1998 233,228 502,588 — — 
			 1999 3,358,388 — — — 
			 2000 4,639,824 5,569,115 — — 
			 2001 — — — — 
			 2002 7,596,203 3,677,720 — — 
			 2003 921,751 — — — 
			 2004 1,537,639 2,347,908 — — 
			 Total 27,992,233 16,168,089 393,000 0 
		
	
	It has not been possible to confirm precisely the amounts received by the successful projects: (1) because some projects are still ongoing; and (2) minor variations to allocations are sometimes negotiated between the European Commission and the applicant at the end of a project to reflect work actually completed.

Departmental Costs

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his estimate is of the cost of (a) ministerial cars and drivers and (b) taxis for his Department in each of the last two years.

Hilary Benn: I refer to the response given by the then Minister for the Cabinet Office, Douglas Alexander on Thursday 13 November 2003, Official Report, column 397–98W. A letter was deposited in the Library in relation to this response which gave the cost of ministerial cars for 2002–03.
	My hon. Friend the Minister of the Cabinet Office (Ruth Kelly) has asked Nick Matheson, Chief Executive of the Government Car and Despatch Agency to write to the hon. Member with details of the cost of ministerial vehicles provided to this Department in 2003–04.
	The costs of taxis provided for DFID, under the central contracts in the UK, for the last two years are as follows:
	
		
			  £ 
			  Cost of taxis 
		
		
			 2002–03 105,908 
			 2003–04 143,447 
		
	
	Taxi costs incurred by members of staff outside the central contracts are not available centrally and could not be provided without incurring a disproportionate cost.

Food Aid

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which countries have been the top 20 recipients of (a) UK and (b) EU food aid in the last year; what tonnages of food each country received, broken down by food type; and what proportion of each food type was locally produced in each country.

Mr. Gareth Thomas: In 2003–04, the UK provided £285.110 million as humanitarian assistance; this included £42.452 million as cash contributions to appeals for emergency food aid. The UK's international food aid is channelled through the World Food Programme (WHO) and NGOs.
	Where emergency responses involve the supply of food commodities, the top recipient countries of UK financed food aid are shown in the following table. The table lists the main food types supplied and also indicates the amount provided, the percentage purchased in the recipient country (locally), in neighbouring countries (regional) or direct from the donor country (direct supply).
	
		UK Food Aid: 2003–04
		
			 Recipient county Metric tonnes Percentage L 1 Percentage R 2 Percentage D 3 Food type 
		
		
			 Ethiopia 113,395 9 91 — beans, corn soya blend, maize, vegetable oil, wheat 
			 Zimbabwe 42,733 16 84 — beans, corn soya blend, maize, maize meal, peas, pulses, vegetable oil 
			 Iraq 44,970 — 88 — rice, sugar, beans, dried whole milk, lentils, peas, vegetable oil, wheat flour, maize, peas 
			 Angola 5,753 2 98 — maize, split peas 
			 Uganda 57,477 100 — — beans, corn soya blend, maize 
			 Eritrea 5,584 — 100 — wheat, split peas 
			 Afghanistan 5,370 — 97 2 peas, sugar, wheat 
			 Sudan 4,468 11 89 — corn soya blend, sorghum, vegetable oil, split peas, 
			 Zambia 4,250 100 — — beans, corn soya blend 
			 Mauritania 4,199 100 — — sugar, vegetable oil, wheat soya blend, split peas, wheat 
			 Nepal 2,553 100 — — rice 
			 Russian Federation 2,541 89 11 — salt, vegetable oil, wheat flour 
			 Malawi 2,526 16 84 — maize, peas 
			 Albania 2,258 — 100 — wheat flour 
			 Kenya 1,429 100 — — maize 
			 Iran 990 — 11 89 rice, sugar 
			 Mali 900 — — — maize 
			 Swaziland 587 — — — beans 
			 Bangladesh 175 50 50 — salt, sugar, split peas, vegetable oil, wheat soya blend 
			 Rwanda 145 — — 100 beans, corn soya blend 
		
	
	(10) Local supply
	(11) Regional supply
	(12) Direct transfer
	The European Community's (EC) budget for food security and food aid in 2003 was €425.637 million (£297.641 million) and in 2004 is €419.637 (£293.452 million).
	The UK's share of the EC food security and food aid budget is 19 per cent.
	Where food commodities were supplied by the EC in 2003–04 as food aid, the top recipient countries are shown in the following table. The table also indicates the amount provided, the percentage purchased in the recipient country (locally), in neighbouring countries (regional) or direct from the donor country (direct supply). The table also lists the main food types supplied.
	
		European Union Food Aid: 2003–04
		
			 Recipient country Metric tonnes Percentage L 1 Percentage R 2 Percentage D 3 Food type 
		
		
			 Ethiopia 341,030 — 93 — wheat, corn soya blend, cereals and grains, sorghum, faffa, maize 
			 Zimbabwe 104,969 24 76 — maize, corn soya blend, pulses, vegetable oil, soya oil 
			 Sudan 4,468 11 89 — corn soya blend, sorghum, vegetable oil, split peas, 
			 Zambia 4,250 100 — — beans, corn soya blend 
			 Mauritania 4,199 100 — — sugar, vegetable oil, wheat soya blend, split peas, wheat 
			 Nepal 2,553 100 — — rice 
			 Russian Federation 2,541 89 11 — salt, vegetable oil, wheat flour 
			 Malawi 2,526 16 84 — maize, peas 
			 Albania 2,258 — 100 — wheat flour 
			 Kenya 1,429 100 — — maize 
			 Iran 990 — 11 89 rice, sugar 
			 Mali 900 — — — maize 
			 Swaziland 587 — — — beans 
			 Bangladesh 175 50 50 — salt, sugar, split peas, vegetable oil, wheat soya blend 
			 Rwanda 145 — — 100 beans, corn soya blend 
		
	
	(13) Local supply
	(14) Regional supply
	(15) Direct transfer

Regional Sports Boards

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the estimated public expenditure on the regional sports boards in England was in the latest year for which figures are available.

Richard Caborn: Details of the 2004–05 budget for the public expenditure (Exchequer and Lottery) of Sport England's regional offices are given in the table.
	
		
			 £000 
			 Region Awards distributed Direct delivery costs Other running costs Total 
		
		
			 East 9,128 39 989 10,156 
			 East Midlands 14,868 44 1,041 15,953 
			 London 12,802 60 1,066 13,927 
			 North East 11,915 46 930 12,891 
			 North West 26,849 74 1,249 28,172 
			 South East 14,514 51 1,333 15,899 
			 South West 10,394 38 952 11,384 
			 West Midlands 13,183 46 1,061 14,290 
			 Yorkshire 9,054 44 1,022 10,120

Vehicle Searches

Bill O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to collect data on the ethnicity of individuals whose vehicles are searched under section 44(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000.

David Blunkett: Details are collected on the ethnicity of those who have been stopped and searched under section 44(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000.
	Ethnicity data relating to the use of these powers has most recently been published in table 4.8 in the Home Office publication 'Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2003', published in July 2004, which is available on the Home Office website at http://www. homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/section951.html

Departmental Expenditure

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a statement on energy costs incurred by his Department in each of the last two years.

Chris Pond: The energy costs incurred by the Department for Work and Pensions in the last two years are as shown in the following table.
	
		
			   £ 
			  2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 Electricity 13,869,498 15,075,730 
			 Gas 4,764,390 4,932,292 
			 Oil 417,694 409,999 
		
	
	This Department occupies approximately 1,800 buildings.

Incapacity Benefit

David Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of new claimants of incapacity benefit in each year since 1997 were already in receipt of another benefit; and what proportion were new benefit claimants.

Maria Eagle: The information is in the table.
	
		All incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance commencements each year by whether a new entrant to benefit or an existing beneficiary Thousand and percentage
		
			  All IB/SDA commencements New entrants to benefit Percentage of new entrants Existing beneficiaries1,2 Percentage of existing beneficiaries 
		
		
			 1 June 1996–31 May 1997 943.0 519.0 55.0 424.0 45.0 
			 1 June 1997–31 May 1998 856.2 505.5 59.0 350.7 41.0 
			 1 June 1998–31 May 1999 798.0 486.8 61.0 311.2 39.0 
			 1 June 1999–31 May 2000 763.0 462.5 60.6 300.5 39.4 
			 1 June 2000–31 May 2001 750.9 456.7 60.8 294.2 39.2 
			 1 June 2001–31 May 2002 697.8 435.4 62.4 262.4 37.6 
			 1 June 2002–31 May 2003 691.0 429.5 62.2 261.5 37.8 
			 1 June 2003–31 May 2004 640.1 399.2 62.4 240.8 37.6 
		
	
	(16) Other benefits in this instance are income support (IS), jobseeker's allowance (JSA) and pension credit (PC).
	(17) Figures for existing beneficiaries in receipt of other benefits are where the IB/SDA claimant has had a claim to one of those benefits cease in the 91 days prior to the IB/SDA start date or has a continuing IS/PC claim at the time of the IB/SDA commencement (excluding cases where the IB/SDA and IS/PC claims are made at the same time eg within the same week).
	Notes:
	1. Case load figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
	2. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
	3. Figures are based on persons claiming severe disablement allowance (SDA), long term or short term incapacity benefit (IB), credits only, and those persons claiming IB but who have their benefit extinguished for reasons such as an overlap with another benefit, or because of hospitalisation.
	4. A person is counted only once in each year, regardless of the number of times they claim and subsequently leave each benefit.
	5. SDA is not available to new claimants from 6 April 2001.
	Source:
	IAD Information Centre.

IT Systems

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the written answer of 1 December 2004 , Official Report, column 177W, on IT systems, what the estimated cost is of the Customer Information System; and who the supplier is.

Jane Kennedy: The Department has engaged Accenture as the Information Technology Solution Provider for the Customer Information System. Accenture has to date been awarded contracts for the design and development of the system.
	The implementation date and cost of the system can be found in the Departmental Report which is available in the Library and on the Internet at:http://www. dwp.gsi.gov.uk/about dwp/dept reports.htm

Poverty Indicators

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) percentage of children who would need to be removed from material deprivation for the Government to meet its target of reducing child poverty by half by 2010–11;
	(2)  how the Government intends to measure progress against its child poverty target (a) before and (b) after the material deprivation indicator is announced.

Chris Pond: Baseline data for the material deprivation element of the child poverty measure will not be available until 2006. Therefore it is not possible to anticipate how many children will need to be lifted out of poverty using the new material deprivation measure.
	The technical note setting out details of how the child poverty PSA target announced in the 2004 spending review will be measured has now been published on the DWP website at www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2004/psa/tech note 2005 2008.paf and on the HM Treasury websites. We have made a clear commitment to set a target on the new material deprivation measure in the 2006 spending review when data on material deprivation become available. All of these targets will need to be met for us to have fully realised our ambition to halve child poverty by 2010.
	We will continue to report progress on the target to decrease the number of children living in relative low income by 2004–05. Final data for this target will be published in 2006.

Breast Cancer

Charles Hendry: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of female breast cancer there have been in each of the last 10 years.

Stephen Timms: The information requested is the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
	Letter from Len Cook to Charles Hendry, dated 13 December 2004
	.
	The latest year for which figures on newly diagnosed cases of cancer are available is 2001. The number of newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer in females registered in England, for the 10 years 1992–2001 are given in the table below.
	
		Number of newly diagnosed cases of breast 1 cancer in females in England, 1992–2001
		
			  Number of cases 
		
		
			 1992 29,665 
			 1993 28,618 
			 1994 29,490 
			 1995 29,904 
			 1996 30,412 
			 1997 31,380 
			 1998 32,908 
			 1999 34,176 
			 2000 33,829 
			 2001 34,347 
		
	
	(18) Newly diagnosed cases between 1995 and 2001, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code C50; newly diagnosed cases between 1992 and 1994, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) code 174.
	Source:
	Office for National Statistics

Child Labour

Parmjit Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps her Department is taking to ensure the responsible behaviour of UK companies investing in the developing world; and what action she is taking in respect of those companies that use child labour.

Douglas Alexander: Across Government we are undertaking a range of activities to encourage UK companies to maximise the positive contribution they make and minimise their adverse impacts on economic, environmental and social objectives throughout their operations across the world, including action to tackle the use of child labour. This encompasses the approaches set out in the recent Trade and Environment White Paper as well as encouraging the highest standards of corporate behaviour through adherence to the values and behaviours set out in internationally agreed initiatives such as the OECD guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. We also encourage participation in initiatives such as the Ethical Trading Initiative, Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, Kimberley Certification Process, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the UN Global Compact. Further details can be found on www. csr.gov.uk.

Energy Market Liberalisation

Brian Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when she expects liberalisation of energy markets in other EU countries to be achieved.

Mike O'Brien: The 2003 Electricity (2003/54/EC) and Gas (2003/55/EC) Directives establish a framework for the development of the internal energy market, with an implementation date of 1 July this year. These are complemented by the 2003 Electricity Regulation (EC1228) and the proposed Gas Regulation (COM (2003) 741), currently before the European Parliament, which both seek to harmonise the conditions of cross-border trade.
	It is for the Commission to ensure compliance with EU legislation.
	The Commission produces annual benchmarking reports on the development of competition in individual member states. The third report, of March this year, is available on the Commission website at http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy/gas/benchmarking/doc3/3rd benchmarking report en.pdf.
	A fourth report is due to be published soon.

Fuel Poverty

Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate her Department has made of the likely change in the number of households in fuel poverty as a result of increased fuel prices.

Mike O'Brien: Our analysis of the effects of increased fuel price rises suggests that fuel poverty is likely to rise by a limited amount in 2004 and 2005 (perhaps by up to 200,000 vulnerable households in England. However any potential increase in the numbers needs to be set against the very real progress that has been made: the number of households in fuel poverty in the UK has fallen by over 3 million since 1996, to 2.25 million in 2002 and further reductions are expected for 2003. The effects of the recent price increases will also be countered by other measures that we have put in place on incomes and benefits. The assumptions behind this estimate are set out in two DTI publications which accompanied publication of the "Fuel Poverty in England: The Government's Plan for Action" on 30 November. These internet publications are available to view at www.dti.gov.uk/energy/consumers/fuel poverty/index.shtml.
	The Government remain committed to achieving their target of seeking an end to the problem of fuel poverty in England in vulnerable households by 2010 as far as is reasonably possible.

Departmental Files

Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether it is the policy of the Department to retain for the benefit of future (a) historians and (b) applicants under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the same (i) complete categories of files, (ii) numbers of files and (iii) representative examples of files from categories of files destroyed as had been preserved prior to the passage of that Act.

Jack Straw: No substantive changes have been made to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) guidelines and criteria for selection or destruction of files over the past five years. The FCO's current selection policy is set out in Operational Selection Policy No. 13 'Britain's diplomatic relations, 1973–1996' which can be found on the TNA's website at: http://www. nationalarchives.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/selection.

Republic of Macedonia

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to recognise the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as the Republic of Macedonia; and if he will make a statement.

Denis MacShane: I refer the honourable Member to the reply that I gave to the honourable Member for Bolton and Skegness (Mr. Simmonds) on 17 November 2004, Official Report, column 1554W.

Sudan

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the recent expulsion of charity workers by the Government of Sudan.

Chris Mullin: I refer my honourable Friend to the reply I gave to the honourable Member for Tweedale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Moore) today (UIN 202528).

Agency Staff

George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people are employed by (a) the Warship Support Agency, (b) the Army Base Repair Organisation, (c) the Defence Aviation Repair Agency, (d) the Defence Bills Agency, (e) the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency, (f) the Non-deployable elements of the British Forces Post Office, (g) the Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency, (h) the Pay and Personnel Agency and (i) the Met Office and Hydrographic Office; what the running cost of each body was in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement on the future of each body.

Adam Ingram: A summary of staff numbers and net operating costs for all MOD's On-vote Agencies are listed in 'Defence Agencies', a supplementary document to the MOD Annual Report and Accounts which is available on the MOD website at http://www.mod.uk/publications/performance2003/supdoc agencies.htm. This also gives details on staff numbers for MOD Trading Funds. Further details on running costs and future issues facing all MOD's On-vote Agencies and Trading Funds can also be found in the individual organisations' annual reports and accounts, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.
	We will continue to keep all our On-vote Agencies and Trading Funds under review, in accordance with Government guidelines, to ensure that their functions are still required and that their status provides the most effective means of carrying out those functions.

RAF Bases

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) military and (b) civilian personnel are based in each RAF base (i) in Scotland, (ii) in England, (iii) in Wales, (iv) in Northern Ireland and (v) abroad; how these numbers have changed in each year since 1991; and if he will make a statement.

Ivor Caplin: Service Personnel data are not available at base level. Service location by local authority is published in TSP10. The latest publication available is July 2002. DASA are currently reviewing the source data and process by which location statistics are produced. The target date for completion of this review is January 2005.
	There are no centrally held reliable data on the number of civilians at base level. However, the following table gives the total number of full time equivalent civilians in the RAF budgetary units by country.
	
		Number of civilian personnel allocated to RAF budgetary units by country at 1 April each year Full time equivalent
		
			  Scotland England Wales N. Ireland Abroad Unallocated Grand total 
		
		
			 1993 1,280 16,420 2,800 180 60 360 21,110 
			 1994 1,300 15,590 2,940 190 70 440 20,540 
			 1995 1,300 14,810 3,130 190 60 430 19,930 
			 1996 1,320 14,140 3,300 210 50 450 19,470 
			 1997 1,380 13,660 3,530 210 40 470 19,290 
			 1998 1,310 13,330 3,650 220 50 480 19,040 
			 1999 1,660 14,300 3,720 210 50 510 20,440 
			 2000(20) 1,090 9,800 310 (20)— 30 340 11,570 
			 2001 1,080 9,670 320 (20)— 20 320 11,400 
			 2002 1,100 9,680 320 (20)— 10 350 11,460 
			 2003 1,080 9,720 380 (20)— 10 200 11,390 
			 2004 1,130 9,810 490 10 10 270 11,710 
		
	
	(20) the figure is less than 10.
	(21) Figures for 1993 to 1999 include staff in RAF Logistics Command. This ceased to be a separate budgetary area on 30 March 2000 with personnel forming part of the Defence Logistics Organisation.
	Note:
	Data for 1991 and 1992 are not available.
	Source:
	DASA (Civilian)

Health Expenditure

Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much has been spent by local health (a) boards and (b) trusts on (i) external contract staffing, (ii) external consultants and (iii) advertising in each of the last five years.

Angela Smith: The information requested is detailed in the following tables. The figures for external contract staffing and consultancy services are collected as one amount on the annual financial returns and as a result, the individual elements cannot be identified.
	
		Total NI expenditure on external contract staffing and consultancy services(23) £000
		
			 External contract staffing and consultancy services 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 
		
		
			 Board  
			 Eastern 59 108 90 119 56 
			 Northern 135 54 154 142 174 
			 Southern 111 126 57 149 0 
			 Western 41 59 44 109 31 
			 NI total 345 347 345 518 261 
		
	
	(23) Please note that any discrepancies in the totals are due to roundings
	Note:
	Expenditure in this category can vary from year-to-year and the amounts can relate to how services are provided in individual Trusts/Boards
	
		Total NI expenditure on advertising by Board(24) £000
		
			 Advertising 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 
		
		
			 Board  
			 Eastern 31 45 37 59 59 
			 Northern 14 23 44 42 54 
			 Southern 30 72 87 49 108 
			 Western 6 21 25 165 54 
			 NI total 81 162 193 315 275 
		
	
	(24) Please note that any discrepancies in the totals are due to roundings
	
		Total NI expenditure on external contract staffing and consultancy services by Trust 1 £000
		
			 External contract staffing and consultancy services 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 
		
		
			 Trust  
			 Altnagelvin 8 8 8 8 8 
			 Armagh and Dungannon 31 45 21 14 23 
			 Belfast City Hospital 62 193 207 191 203 
			 Causeway 60 47 36 57 116 
			 Craigavon and Banbridge 38 72 86 54 76 
			 Craigavon Area 38 99 38 130 181 
			 Down Lisburn 40 27 6 19 65 
			 Foyle 34 12 4 9 8 
			 Greenpark 0 0 0 0 0 
			 Homefirst 59 87 86 188 274 
			 Mater 21 4 0 0 0 
			 Newry and Mourne 12 33 22 61 107 
			 NIAS 41 131 173 258 273 
			 North and West Belfast 28 23 62 90 34 
			 Royal Group of Hospitals 209 215 221 223 199 
			 South and East Belfast 8 0 0 0 0 
			 Sperrin Lakeland 14 15 11 22 0 
			 Ulster 16 112 41 17 14 
			 United 112 21 28 36 83 
			 NI total 616 921 820 1,146 1,465 
		
	
	(25) Please note that any discrepancies in the totals are due to roundings.
	Note:
	Expenditure in this category can vary from year-to-year and the amounts can relate to how services are provided in individual Trusts/Boards
	
		Total NI expenditure on advertising by Trust £000
		
			 Advertising 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 
		
		
			 Trust  
			 Altnagelvin 74 56 100 113 221 
			 Armagh and Dungannon 53 66 100 77 71 
			 Belfast City Hospital 84 117 157 168 190 
			 Causeway 68 61 49 135 105 
			 Craigavon and Banbridge 13 54 92 70 87 
			 Craigavon Area 49 74 89 49 97 
			 Down Lisburn 109 101 165 208 214 
			 Foyle 89 91 116 129 149 
			 Greenpark 47 65 76 138 116 
			 Homefirst 80 84 135 193 200 
			 Mater 31 37 50 65 71 
			 Newry and Mourne 66 100 73 102 27 
			 NIAS 18 14 22 33 34 
			 North and West Belfast 66 60 89 201 185 
			 Royal Group of Hospitals 108 133 160 274 250 
			 South and East Belfast 114 76 86 122 179 
			 Sperrin Lakeland 81 108 110 127 152 
			 Ulster 75 101 154 253 175 
			 United 64 105 101 118 147 
			 NI Total 1,289 1,503 1,923 2,575 2,671 
		
	
	(26) Please note that any discrepancies in the totals are due to roundings

Roads

Jeffrey M Donaldson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what expenditure there has been on (a) new roads schemes and improvements and (b) repairs to the roads network in the Lagan Valley constituency in each year since 1997.

John Spellar: The Chief Executive of Roads Service (Dr. Malcolm McKibbin) has been asked to write to the hon. Gentleman in response to this question.
	Letter from Dr. Malcolm McKibbin to Mr. Donaldson, dated 10 December 2004
	You recently asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland a Parliamentary Question about expenditure on new roads schemes and improvements and repairs to the road network in the Lagan Valley constituency in each year since 1997. I have been asked to reply as these issues fall within my responsibility as Chief Executive of Roads Service.
	Roads Service does not maintain details of expenditure on a parliamentary constituency basis, however, the table below shows the expenditure incurred by Roads Service on capital (major and minor) road improvement schemes, and on maintenance activities in the Lisburn City Council area during the period 1997/98 to 2001/02. Expenditure details by district council area for 2002/03 and 2003/04 are not yet available.
	
		
			   £000 
			  Capital 1 Maintenance 
		
		
			 1997–98 2,368 4,915 
			 1998–99 928 4,006 
			 1999–2000 646 4,551 
			 2000–01 837 4,239 
			 2001–02 906 5,141 
		
	
	(27) Capital includes major and minor works but excludes street lighting, car parks and plant/depot.
	In providing this information, I should like to emphasise that Roads Service does not simply apportion its total budget for capital and maintenance expenditure equally across district council areas. In particular, major road improvements are prioritised on a country-wide basis, not on a district council basis, taking account of a broad range of criteria such as strategic planning policy, traffic flows, number of accidents, potential travel save times, environmental impact and value for money. While the actual spend on a major works scheme may be within one council area, the benefits of such schemes are not confined to the district council area or constituency in which they are located.
	The resources available for minor capital schemes are allocated to the four Roads Service Divisions and, in turn, apportioned across district council areas on a needs-based priority approach using indicators such as population, weighted road lengths and the number of accidents. This ensures, so far as possible, an equitable distribution of funds across the country.
	Similarly the resources available for each maintenance activity (e.g. resurfacing, patching, gully emptying, grass cutting etc) are apportioned to district council areas using appropriate indicators of need.
	I hope this information is helpful.

Departmental Expenditure

John Bercow: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total cost to his Department was for accountancy services in each of the last two years.

Phil Hope: The total cost to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for accountancy services for the last two years was as follows:
	
		
			Amount 
		
		
			 2002–03 3,317,568 
			 2003–04 3,133,224 
		
	
	These services are provided in-house.

Grants

Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many cash incentive scheme grants have been made in each Government office region in each year since 2001–02; and what the total value was of these grants in each region.

Keith Hill: The information reported by local authorities in each Government office region on the number of cash incentive scheme grants made in each year since 2001–02 and the total value of their grants are tabled as follows:
	
		
			   £000 
			  2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 
			  Grants Total spend Grants Total spend Grants Total spend 
		
		
			 North East 0 0 0 0 0 0 
			 Yorkshire and Humber 3 13 0 0 1 8 
			 East Midlands 3 11 6 8 5 5 
			 East of England 91 510 53 303 89 317 
			 London 373 7,962 386 7,534 425 8,777 
			 South East 65 840 53 830 30 682 
			 South West 43 235 39 210 32 388 
			 West Midlands 83 256 34 68 29 44 
			 North West 0 0 0 0 0 0 
			 England 661 9,827 571 8,953 611 10,221

Pay Bargaining Unit

Paul Holmes: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many times the appraisal system for each pay bargaining unit in his Department has been changed in the last five years; and how many staff are fully or partly employed in connection with pay negotiations in each pay bargaining unit, broken down by grade.

Phil Hope: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) was established in May 2002 following Machinery of Government changes. The information on (a) the changing of appraisal systems and (b) the numbers and grades of staff in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's bargaining units directly involved in annual pay negotiations, is set out as follows. It should be noted that pay negotiation forms only part of wider responsibilities of the teams.
	The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
	(a) None.
	(b) One Senior Civil Service equivalent, Grade 7 and two HEOs.
	The Planning Inspectorate
	(a) Once.
	(b) One Senior Civil Service equivalent, Grade 7, HEO and EO.
	Fire Service College
	(a) Once
	(b) One Senior Civil Service equivalent, Grade 7 and HEO.
	QEII Conference Centre
	(a) Twice.
	(b) The Centre's Chief Executive, a member of the Senior Civil Service and G7 equivalent.
	Government Offices
	(a) Once.
	(b) One Senior Civil Service equivalent, Grade 7 and HEO.

Public Engagements

Julian Lewis: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for which of the five public engagements listed in his Answer of 2 December 2004, Official Report, column 252W, on public engagements, texts or transcripts of his presentations are publicly available.

Alan Milburn: A Transcript of the speech I gave on 9 November 2004 to the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) is available on the IPPR website www. ippr.org.uk
	Transcripts of the speeches I gave on the 23 November 2004, at the Guardian Public Services Awards, and on the 30 November 2004 at the Association of Chief Executive of Voluntary Organisations, are available on the Cabinet office website www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk"
	Copies of these speeches have today been placed in the Library.

Communication Masts (Health Effects)

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research he has commissioned on the cumulative effects of multiple mobile phone/Tetra masts on the health of people living nearby.

Melanie Johnson: The mobile telecommunications and health research programme supports about 30 studies of the potential effects of mobile phone telecommunications. Many of these are generic and accordingly relevant to TETRA. Some studies include a specific examination of the effects of TETRA. The programme is described on the web site www.mthr. org.uk. An associated programme, specifically on TETRA, is being funded by the Home Office www.policereform.gov.uk/implementation/tetra/index. html. In general, the studies are concerned mainly with mobile phones rather than base stations (masts) because the public exposure from base station emissions is very much lower than the international guidelines.
	The public health implications of mobile phones base stations were reviewed recently in a report by the National Radiological Protection Board's advisory group on non-ionising radiation (AGNIR). The report, entitled "Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic fields", (Documents of the NRPB, Vol 14, No2, 2003) concluded that "Exposure levels from living near to mobile phone base stations are extremely low, and the overall evidence indicates that they are unlikely to pose a risk to health" www. nrpb.org. In 2001, at the request of the Home Office, AGNIR reported on TETRA and concluded that "current evidence suggests that it is unlikely that the special features of the signals from TETRA mobile terminals and repeaters pose a hazard to health" (Documents of the NRPB, Vol 12, No 2, 2001).
	The Department supports the World Health Organisation's electromagnetic fields project, which is currently reviewing worldwide research and is due to publish a health risk assessment of radiofrequency effects in 2007. This will be available on the WHO'S website at www.who.int/peh-emf.

Departmental Costs

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on energy costs incurred by his Department in each of the last two years.

Rosie Winterton: Costs for the provision of energy to the Department's main London estate for 2002–03 and 2003–04 are shown in the table.
	
		
			   £ 
			  2002–03 2003–04 
		
		
			 Gas 108,675 106,278 
			 Electricity 627,137 658,347 
			 Oil 3,712 811 
		
	
	The other main departmental building, situated in Leeds, is managed by Land Securities Trillium on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions. The Department of Health pays an annual charge for energy for its occupation, as shown in the table.
	
		
			  Gas and electricity (£) 
		
		
			 2002–03 267,997 
			 2003–04 256,000

Expert Patients Programme

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 
	(1)  how many primary care trusts had completed all four pilot stage courses under the Expert Patients Programme on (a) 1 April and (b) 1 December;
	(2)  what the total cost to central funds has been of the Expert Patients Programme to date; and how much funding has been allocated to support the mainstreaming of the Expert Patients Programme across the NHS between 2004 and 2007;
	(3)  what plans he has to change the name of the Expert Patients Programme;
	(4)  how many primary care trusts are (a) running Expert Patients Programme courses and (b) committed to establishing Expert Patients Programme courses.

Melanie Johnson: From current information available from survey returns, 167 primary care trusts (PCTs) are known to have completed four pilot courses by 1 June 2004 and 204 PCTS delivered four courses or more by 1 December 2O04.
	290 PCTs are currently engaged in either pilot or post-pilot course activity. 191 PCTs, out of 280 PCTS who responded to the survey, have courses arranged post pilot. On average this equates to 4.8 courses per PCT, an escalation of 2.3 courses per PCT compared with the previous year.
	The total estimated cost to central funding to date amounts to £9 million, which includes support to the local implementation of the expert patients programme (PP) through PCTs. Mainstreaming allocated funding for 2004–05 is £2 million. The allocation for 2005–07 is still under review.
	There are currently no plans to change the name of the EEP but I understand the EPP strategic management board has discussed the need to find a name which fully reflects the scope of the programme and its commitment to supported self-management by people with long term conditions, but no recommendation has yet been made.

Health Services

Louise Ellman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding has been made available for health services in Liverpool in each year since 1997.

Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the following table.
	
		Allocations to Liverpool health authority (HA) and successor primary care trusts (PCTs) 1996–97 to 2005–06 £ thousand
		
			 HA/PCT 1996–97 allocation(33) 1997–98 allocation(33) 1998–99 allocation(33) 1999–2000 allocation(33) 2000–01 allocation(33) 
		
		
			 Liverpool HA 230,029 243,040 253,814 350,296 379,504 
			 Central Liverpool PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 North Liverpool PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
			 South Liverpool PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 
		
	
	
		
			  £ thousand 
			 HA/PCT 2001–02 allocation(33) 2002–03 allocation(33) 2003–04 allocation(33) 2004–05 allocation(33) 2005–06 allocation(33) 
		
		
			 Liverpool HA 410,236 453,913 n/a n/a n/a 
			 Central Liverpool PCT n/a n/a 286,884 321,165 358,315 
			 North Liverpool PCT n/a n/a 118,120 132,316 147,710 
			 South Liverpool PCT n/a n/a 100,413 110,029 120,103 
		
	
	(33) 1999–2000 is the first year of unified allocations covering hospital and community health services (HCHS), prescribing and general medical service cash limited.
	Note:
	These figures are not comparable with those for previous years, which cover HCHS only.

Mumps

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice he has issued about the efficacy of the MMR vaccination for preventing mumps after 10 years from the date of vaccination.

Melanie Johnson: Advice is contained in the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) factsheet No. 1, originally issued in 1997 and stated the following:
	"There is very little evidence that immunity to measles, mumps, or rubella vaccines wanes with time. It is known that children will remain immune for at least 27 years against measles, 18 years against rubella and 14 years against mumps—in other words for the amount of time that the vaccines have been available. Even if individuals are not fully protected, the immune system will have some memory and be able to respond more quickly in the immunised than in those who have not been immunised. Immunised children with low levels of antibodies are likely to have a modified, less serious, illness. Long-term studies on the duration of protection are continuing."
	The text of the factsheet is available at www. mmrthefacts.nhs.uk/resources/pdf/factsheets1–3.pdf.

Mumps

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have contracted mumps in each of the last five years; and how many were minors.

Melanie Johnson: The information is in the public domain and available on the Health Protection Agency's website at www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics az/mumps/data reg age.htm.

NHS Expenditure

George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what expenditure is planned for the NHS in each financial year from 2005–06 to 2007–08.

John Hutton: The following table shows planned total net national health service expenditure in England for the period 2005–06 to 2007–08.
	
		
			  £ billion 
			  Planned total net NHS expenditure(34) 
		
		
			 2005–06 76.4 
			 2006–07 83.8 
			 2007–08 92.1 
		
	
	(34) Figures for 2005–06 to 2007–08 are on a full resource budgeting basis.

Psychotherapy

John Hume: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what provision for psychotherapy is available under the national health service in England.

Rosie Winterton: The Department does not collect information centrally concerning the provision of psychological therapies by type or location. Decisions about provision are a local responsibility, taking into account national guidance, such as the "National Service Framework for Mental Health (1999)", copies of which are available in the Library, and "Organising and Delivering Psychological Therapies (2004)".
	The Department also published "Treatment Choice in Psychological Therapies and Counselling (2001)" to aid decisions about which forms of psychological therapy are most appropriate for which patients. Copies of the last two documents have been placed in the Library.
	These publications are available on the Department's website at http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolteyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/MentalHealth/Mental HealthPublications/fs/en?CONTENT IO=4016395&chk =cxOUgO